The Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity Book

Science once had an unshakable faith in its ability to bring the forces of natureeven human natureunder control. In this wide-ranging book Anson Rabinbach examines how developments in physics, biology, medicine, psychology, politics, and art employed the metaphor of the working body as a human motor. From nineteenth-century theories of thermodynamics and political economy to the twentieth-century ideals of Taylorism and Fordism, Rabinbach demonstrates how the utopian obsession with energy and fatigue shaped social thought across the ideological spectrum.Read More

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  • 0465031307
  • 9780465031306
  • Anson Rabinbach
  • 12 January 1991
  • Basic Books
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 432
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